#1: A PLEASANT LITTLE LIFE
(Sung by the cast)
The rustic and humble little English country town of Meryton has rarely been visited by the wealthy and prestigious.
Excerpt: Download 01_track_01_simple_life.mp3
#2: WELCOME TO OUR NEIGHBORHOOD
(Sung by the cast)
The arrival of the rich and highborn newcomers Charles Bingley, sister Caroline, and friend Mr. Darcy, has the town in a hubbub—especially the single ladies and their mothers!
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#3: IT IS A TRUTH
(Sung by Bingley, Darcy and Caroline)
Darcy
and Bingley banter about the pressures on single men--particularly
wealthy single men--to marry. But while Darcy is disgusted by it,
Bingley's attitude is more benign--perhaps because he is already in the
throes of enchantment with one of the local beauties, Jane Bennet.
Excerpt: Download 03_track_03_there_is_a_truth.mp3
#4: FIVE DAUGHTERS
(Sung by Mrs. Bennet and Mr. Bennet, with their daughters)
Though the Bennet parents love their girls, Mr. Bennet has a decidedly more cynical view of them—and their prospects.
Excerpt: Download 04_track_04_five_daughters.mp
#5:
ASSEMBLY BALL BUZZ
(Sung by the cast)
The
guests at the town’s Assembly Ball are abuzz with the appearance of the
party of Mr.Bingley—and with his increasingly obvious attraction to the
eldest Bennet sister, Jane. However, Darcy and Caroline Bingley are
less enthralled with the locals~to say the least.
Excerpt: Download 05_track_05_assembly_ball_buzz.mp3
#6:
A HUSBAND
(Sung by Mrs. Bennet, with her husband and daughters)
Jane's
invitation to the Bingley mansion, Netherfield, thrusts her mother into
a fevered frenzy of orders and plans for making her eldest daughter
into Mrs. Bingley.
Excerpt: Download 06_track_06_a_husband.mp3
#7: CHANGING WORLD
(Sung by Bingley, Jane, Elizabeth and Darcy)
To her mother’s delight, Jane is confined to Netherfield by
illness. Elizabeth visits her there, where the voices of Bingley,
Jane, Elizabeth, and Darcy entwine in separate soliloquies of their
various heartfelt feelings.
Bingley and Jane are falling in love, Elizabeth is hopeful for Jane,
and Darcy is fighting his growing attraction to the feisty Elizabeth
who has steeled herself against his haughty ways.
Excerpt; #1:
Download 07_track_07_changing_world.mp3
Excerpt #2:
Download 08_track_08_changing_world2.mp3
#8: MR. COLLINS' MARRY ANTHEM
(Sung by Mr. Collins)
With the Bennets' home entailed to their ridiculous cousin Collins, his presumptuous offer to make one of the Bennet girl his wife enthralls the mother and repels the daughters.
Download 09_track_09_collins_marry.mp3
#9: IN MY IMAGINATION
(Sung by Charlotte)
At
the Bingleys’ masked ball, Lizzy’s pragmatic friend, Charlotte,
confides that while Lizzy might have marital choices, Charlotte herself
is in no position to be picky--and that romantic love is not the only
path to contentment.
EXCERPT: Download 10_track_10_imagination.mp3
#10: CHANGING WORLD - REPRISE
(Sung by the Bennet Family)
The
sudden departure of the Bingley party for London devastates Jane, and
her family for her. Elizabeth suspects the manipulation of Bingley’s
spiteful sister Caroline. But she is unaware of the impact of the rude
behavior of her younger sisters and her mother, plus her own attentions
to the secret scoundrel Wickham, upon Darcy—who has decided to rescue
his friend--and himself--from the clutches of the conniving Bennet
women by taking his party off to London.
Excerpt:Download 11_track_11_cw_reprise.mp3
#11: BEING MARRIED
(Sung by Charlotte and Mr. Bennet)
Having
spurned Collins’ proposal, Elizabeth acquiesces to visit him and his
rebound bride, Charlotte, in their new home—where they sing the praises
of the ties that bind. However, Charlotte’s performance of the song
hints at her being less than ecstatic about the choice she has made.
Excerpt: Download 12_track_12_being_married.mp3
#12: THAT WOULD BE ME
(Sung by Lady Catherine DeBourgh)
The
bossy Lady Catherine is even more pompous than her sycophant, Mr.
Collins, whom she has invited to dinner along with his wife and
Elizabeth. Noting the attentions of her nephew Darcy to Elizabeth, she
holds forth even more obnoxiously.
Excerpt: Download 13_track_13_that_would_be_me.mp3
#14: HOW DARE HE!
(Sung by Elizabeth)
Elizabeth
expresses her shock and anger to her friend, Charlotte, that Darcy had
the nerve to propose to her, even while insulting her family and
destroying her dear sister’s hope for happiness. Yet, between rantings
emerges her irrepressible ambivalence, evidence of even deeper feelings
of caring for this exasperatingly complicated man.
Excerpt: Download 15_track_15_how_could_he.mp3
#15: A HUSBAND
(Reprise, Sung as a duet by Elizabeth and Jane)
Elizabeth
is summoned home, only to find the Bennet household in an uproar. Not
only has Lydia run away with Wickham, but her letter indicates no plans
to marry—which will throw the Bennet family into total disgrace!
Elizabeth
assumes the reason for Darcy’s sudden appearance at Longbourn is to
gloat in person over her family’s misfortune. On the contrary: upon
hearing the bad news, he feels compelled to tell Elizabeth how Wickham
had once tried to run away with Darcy’s wealthy little sister. Only a
payoff from Darcy dissuaded him. This story only deepens Elizabeth’s
despair, since unlike Darcy, the Bennets are too poor to “purchase”
Lydia’s betrothal to the odious Wickham, even if they wanted to. Their
only hope is to find the girl before word of her actions ruins her
reputation—and the futures of all the Bennet sisters.
After
Mr. Darcy leaves, Lizzy confides in Jane about his proposal. The two
fantasize about a world in which marriage isn't a woman's financial
salvation...
#16:
WHAT IS A MAN TO DO ?
(Sung by Mr. Collins)
Not one to miss an opportunity to gloat, Mr.
Collins shows up to blame the Bennets’ faulty childrearing for daughter
Lydia's scandalous disappearance with Mr. Wickham. From there he
tangos around to the universal truth—that "hanky-panky" is NEVER the
man’s fault.
Excerpt: Download 16_track_16_collinstango.mp3
#17:
THAT WOULD BE ME
(Reprise, Sung as a duet between Lady Catherine and Elizabeth)
Lydia's sudden appearance—with her new husband, Wickham in tow—gives the Bennets reason to rejoice.
Lady Catherine's unexpected visit
is less so. She is there to learn the truth of Darcy’s rumored proposal
to Elizabeth, and to exact from Lizzy a promise that she will never
accept Darcy’s hand in marriage. Lizzy‘s indignant refusal to
cooperate drives out Lady Catherine in a vengeful rage.
The
eavesdropping Darcy is ecstatic, and summons his courage to propose to
Elizabeth one last time. Finally realizing her respect and love for
him, Lizzy accepts.
#18: THE ONE WHO I WILL BE WITH YOU
(Reprise, Sung as a duet between Darcy and Elizabeth)
Darcy takes Lizzy to the window to show her that Charles is proposing to Jane.
As
Darcy and Lizzy sing of their love in the finale, Charles and Jane join
them, as does the rest of the cast as the song crescendoes into a
joyous double wedding scene.
#19: I WISH YOU JOY (WEDDING SONG)
(Sung by the Cast)
Through repenting for his prejudices,
maneuvering the redemptive marriage of Lydia and Wickham, and reuniting
Bingley and Jane, Darcy proves himself to be worthy of
Elizabeth—herself repenting for her own misguided pride--after all. A
double-wedding unites the two couples, as the Bennet family and the
whole town joins in on this paean of love, friendship, and
community.
Excerpt: Download 17_track_17_i_wish_you_joy.mp3
